“Near the end of his masterful book To Change the World, we discover that James Davison Hunter does not believe we should (or can) change the world. Nor should we be ” ‘redeeming the culture,’ ‘advancing the kingdom,’ ‘building the kingdom,’ ‘transforming the world,’ ‘reclaiming the culture,’ [or] ‘reforming the culture.'” It’s a surprising turn, given that a casual reader might naturally think, for the first hundred pages, that To Change the World is about how to change the world. And therein, as they used to say, lies a tale worth telling.”

10. Five reasons conservatives should be worried about Britain’s Barack Obama, Nick Clegg.

11. Oklahoma Law requires women to see sonogram before abortion – ABC News goes out of its way to make law seem horrific and unreasonable (unlike abortion itself).

12. Some paintings imitate reality…. but these realities imitate paintings.

13. Is ‘Surrogates’ threatening to become a reality? The Telepresence Robot could be the first small step toward a digital world, allowing you to ‘go to work’ while staying at home.

“The camera focuses on an official of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), California’s largest public-employee union, sitting in a legislative chamber and speaking into a microphone. ‘We helped to get you into office, and we got a good memory,’ she says matter-of-factly to the elected officials outside the shot. ‘Come November, if you don’t back our program, we’ll get you out of office.’

30. This is why Twitter will live forever: you can now “Follow” Hugo Chavez. I wonder if Karl Rove is following Chavez – I’d love to see a tweet-off between those two. I’m sorry, what did you say? My “nerd” is showing?

31. Even in a down economy, it pays to be stylish- for apparel retailers, that is. Urban Outfitters sales last quarter exceeded Thomson Reuters predictions by $20 million, totaling $480 million, Morningstar reports.

32. Sharon Lerner takes a gander at why American women are reportedly on an unhappy trajectory. She suggests a lot of governmental involvement, but at least brings attention to “the unpleasantness of trying to do too much at once.”